OTTAWA — Rogers Communications’ Step Up to the Plate initiative with Food Banks Canada has now arrived in Ottawa, delivering food hampers that will provide more than 709,000 meals to local food banks and help fill the plates of 34,000 people across Ottawa, the company announced today.
“Ottawa is where we live, where we work, and where we raise our families. It’s our responsibility to step up locally and today that’s through food donations and volunteer time,” said Heidi Bonnell, Rogers’ president of National Capital Region and vice-president, federal government affairs, in the news release. (Pictured are some of the Rogers employees who volunteered at the Ottawa Food Bank, alongside Mona Fortier, minister of middle-class prosperity and associate minister of finance, wearing blue scarf.)
The Step Up to the Plate initiative started in June at Rogers Centre in Toronto, where Rogers employee volunteers and their families filled food hampers with non-perishable food items that provide an individual with a week’s worth of meals. (Last week, Rogers announced the initiative had arrived in Alberta.)
Upon the food hampers’ arrival by truck in Ottawa, local Rogers employee volunteers are working with the Ottawa Food Bank to organize and continue preparing thousands of food hampers for distribution to those who need it most.
“This will go a long way to help our member agency food programs and neighbours. We are in an unprecedented time when helping one another is needed now more than ever. With that in mind, we are grateful that Rogers has stepped up to the plate,” said Michael Maidment, CEO of Ottawa Food Bank, in the release.
Step Up to the Plate is part of The 60 Project, a year-long initiative to mark Rogers’ 60th anniversary by giving back and building a stronger Canada.
